[iMacfan]

Hi,

I've just noticed that the superdrive in my PB 12" 867 has been scratching some CDs slightly. These are dotted in circles, in the outer half of the CD, with each scratch following the curve of the disk, and are a few millimetres long.

Now, this is only on some disks. (I've noticed it on The Sims, and the best of album by The Beautiful South.) Do I have to worry? Have any of you seen this before? Will this eventually make the disk unreadable?

Thanks for any help,

David

[stevesnj]

Originally posted by iMacfan:
Hi,

I've just noticed that the superdrive in my PB 12" 867 has been scratching some CDs slightly. These are dotted in circles, in the outer half of the CD, with each scratch following the curve of the disk, and are a few millimetres long.

Now, this is only on some disks. (I've noticed it on The Sims, and the best of album by The Beautiful South.) Do I have to worry? Have any of you seen this before? Will this eventually make the disk unreadable?

Thanks for any help,

David

Take it in for repair or replacement, the drive would be making a heck of a noise if it's scratching discs...i would stop using the drive

[iMacfan]

Originally posted by stevesnj:
Take it in for repair or replacement, the drive would be making a heck of a noise if it's scratching discs...i would stop using the drive

The Thing is it isn't - the scratches are really very superficial. However, the music CD I bought yesterday which mad me notice it had enough of these after being ripped and played once for me to hear the drive moving quite a bit (sounds like the laser is moving back and fore every second or so), as if it is having difficulty reading it. I thought that it was just some random CDs that would do it, but I noticed my Panther CD's, which I have only used once have about 20 of these micro scratches a piece. I'm sure that they would work, but after a few more installs I think problems would start. This also means that the drive has been doing this for at least as long as Panther has been about.

So, it looks like I'll be phoning Apple in the morning... (Oh boy do I hate the way you have to send off the Book, you'd think that they'd have a walk-in center somewhere in London...)
At least I can get the dodgy key on my keyboard fixed that I didn't want to send it in for when it was new!


Thanks,

David